Facebook Inc. has asked a California federal district court to toss a lawsuit alleging that it tracked user locations without consent, saying the plaintiffs didn’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
The plaintiffs lacked standing to sue for alleged privacy violations and Facebook’s use of location information is a routine practice, according to the company’s motion to dismiss filed Nov. 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
The social media giant may face a challenge persuading U.S. District Court Judge James Donato to end the suit, because the Northern District of California has allowed other ...
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